Hygiene Sanitation Water (HYASAWA) Program

Goal

To ensure safe sanitation and pure drinking water for the people of the working area.

Objectives

- Behavioral change of grassroots people in terms or hygienic practice.
- Access to safe water and sanitation.
- Ensure women’s involvement in the project.

YPSA-Hygiene Sanitation Water (HYASAWA) Program has been working for about two decades for ensuring safe water and sanitation with a view to improving the public health status of the disadvantaged group of the community living in the un-served and underserved areas of Mirshari & Sitakund upazila under Chittagong district.

YPSA- HYASAWA Program is being implemented in sitakund Upazila since 1993 & Mirshari Upzilla since 2007 in an integrated approach. Integrated approach in water and sanitation means integration of functions that’s to be performed by the community to prevent the spread of water borne diseases with the limited resources. At this moment YPSA- HYASAWA is working with full Union as per the project target for 1 year.

Project Participants: Mirshari & Sitakunda Upazilla

Male	Female	Adolescent	Poorest	Ethnic Minority	Total
66122	65314	917	3218	29	135600

 

Safe Water Supply
Awareness rising among the community people and assist to install alternative water resources to ensure safe drinking water for the grassroots people is the main activity of water and sanitation program. The program has been designed keeping a balance between implementing agency and community people. Implementing agency assists technologically and community people participate in cost sharing and supervision processing.

Particulars	2009  -2010
	Target	Achievement
		No. of Event	Beneficiaries			Cumulative (No. of Event)
			Male	Female	Total
Sallow Tube well	15	13	200	216	416	90
Rainwater Harvesting Plant	00	00	00	00	00	04
Iron Removal Plant	00	00	00	00	00	14
Pond Sand Filtration	00	00	00	00	00	01
Bucket Treatment Unit	00	00	00	00	00	300
Ring Well	00	00	00	00	00	01

 

Motivational Activities:

Particulars	2009   -2010
	Target	Achievement
		No. of Event	(Beneficiaries)			Cumulative (No. of Event)
			Male	Female	Total
School Program	01	01	425	389	814	04
Local Discuss Meeting	04	04	62	41	103	04
Court Yard Session	24	24	00	625	625	60
Adolescent session	24	25	25	365	707	47
Tea stall Session	05	05	140	00	140	30
Community Meeting	02	02	38	188	226	12
Rally &Micking	01	01	0	0	0	04

 

Awareness Rising on Arsenic Pollution:
YPSA is implementing continuous awareness raising activities on harmful effects of arsenic among the rural poor. YPSA also detecting the arsenic contaminated tube wells of the working area vis-à-vis providing alternative sources of safe drinking water for the people of those areas where arsenic contamination in ground water is above the maximum permissible limit of 0.05 mg/liter.

Total Tube well	Arsenic Found	Arsenic mg/liter
363	198	>.05

 

Model Village

Year	Village	Family	Beneficiary			Coverage
			Male	Female	Total
2009-2010	01	338	1022	1103	2125	71%
Cumulative	18	6172	16726	16795	33521	-

 

Village Development Committee:
Village Development Committee is formed in every village of the working area ensuring representatives of different stakeholders from the community like, Social leader, Teacher, Religion leader, women representative, Local govt. personnel etc.

Village Sanitation Centre:
YPSA established two static and six mobile Village Sanitation Centre (VSC) in sitakund, Mirshary & CDSP working area. In the VSCs hygienic latrines are produced, demonstrated and sold.

Future Plan:
YPSA-HYASAWA program is being supported by NGO Forum & YPSA own fund.  It has been implemented through integrated approach with YPSA’s other program. YPSA’s working area is Arsenic contaminated area so there is scope to take special project on it. Although there is some achievement of HYASAWA program, it we want to work in vast scale it needs to be reorganized. It has been observed that for HYASAWA program financial and technical support was not sufficient. Here it is very essential to allocate more fund and technical support to reach the goal of the HYASAWA program. We have planned Achieve MDG for to increase 50% population coverage safe water through 2015 by 100% Sanitation Coverage setting up of Arsenic Removal plant. Also installing of Ring well in the Arsenic effective area. In the same time As a result which will reduce 80% of child mortality rate by 2015 with in working area.